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Course Title / Irish History: 1600-1800
Course ID / C2416358 / Tutor / Sean Worgan
Start date / 5/10/2012 / Day(s)/time(s) / Friday 2pm to 4pm
No. of sessions / 20 / Hours per session / 2. / Fees
Concession / £ 150
Free on proof of income related benefit
Venue: St John’s United Reformed Church, Barnet
Branch / Barnet WEA branch
Branch/Partner contact details /

020 8445 1709
020 8368 0159
Publicity Description
What sowed the seeds for the Troubles in Northern Ireland? Why is Cromwell so hated in the south and William of Orange beloved in the north? Enrol today to discover the answers, and learn something about Irish literature, philosophy and science too.
Course Aims: To examine how Gaelic Ireland and the ‘old English’ were replaced with a Protestant Ascendancy, charting major events and figures along the way.
What is the course for? What is its main purpose? E.g. to provide a brief introduction to the principles of garden design, with a view to applying them in your own garden.
Main Topics Covered
Flight of the Earls, Plantation of Ulster, Laudian Ireland, Ireland in the English Civil War, Cromwell in Ireland, Restoration Ireland, Jacobean Ireland, Siege of Derry and the Battle of the Boyne, Aughrim and the Wild Geese, Penal Laws, the Irish Parliament and the Undertakers, Irish Scientific Achievement, Bishop Berkeley and Some Irish Philosophy, Flood and Grattan, Ireland and the American Revolution (War of Independence), the French Revolution and Ireland, the Orange Order, Act of Union.
Pre-course preparation, reading, internet research etc.
Since the course does not lead to a formal qualification it is not essential to do huge amounts of preparation beforehand. However, learners should familiarise themselves with the topics and gain a basic understanding of them, this will help in class. Websites are useful in this respect. Although sometimes maligned Wikipedia is a good introduction and the historical articles are of a high quality. Make sure they have references in the text and at the end (which the vast majority do), this is the hallmark of a well researched article. BBC-History is also useful, but learners would be better advised to enter a topic name since this often yields far more material, e.g. ‘Cromwell in Ireland’ throws up link to the RTE programme, which ca be viewed online. Edmund Burke is featured on the BBC-History website.
TITLE / AUTHOR / PUBLISHER
Irish History for Dummies
The Making of Modern Ireland
Modern Ireland: 1600-1972
Seventeenth Century Ireland
Buckingham and Ireland 1616-1628: A Study in Anglo-Irish Politics
Cromwell: Our Chief of Enemies
Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy
Hell or Connaught
The Siege of Derry
Ireland’s Fate: The Boyne and After
The Williamite War in Ireland 1688-91
Patrick Sarsfield and the Williamite War
Parties, Patriots and Undertakers.
The Works of George Berkeley D.D.
Henry Flood: Patriots and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Ireland.
Burke: Pre-Revolutionary Writings.
Edmund Burke
Wolfe Tone: Prophet of Irish Independence.
The United Irishmen. / Mike Cronin
J.C. Beckett
Roy Foster
Raymond Gillespie
Victor Treadwell
Jason McElligott
Tom Reilly
Peter Beresford-Ellis
Patrick Macrory
Robert Shepherd
Richard Doherty
Piers Wauchope
Patrick McNally
George Berkeley
James Kelly
Ed. Ian Harris
Conor-Cruise O’Brien
Marianne Eliott
Dickson, Keogh and Whelan (Eds,) / John Wiley and Sons
Faber and Faber
Penguin
Gill
Four Courts Press
Dundalgen Press
Phoenix Press
The Blackstaff Press
Oxford
Aurum Press
Four Courts Press
Irish Academic Press
Four Courts Press.
Elibron
Four Courts Press
Cambridge
Vintage
Yale
Lilliput
Essential costs/materials
Materials - Notepad and stationary.
Essential costs - none
Entry Requirements/Level
A basic knowledge of Irish history is very useful, but not essential.
Level: this course is placed at level 3 (roughly equivalent to A Level)
Title of qualification to be gained (if any) / This is a non-accredited course. On 80% attendance learners can request a WEA Certificate of Achievement.
Awarding Body (if any) / N/A
Teaching and learning methods used
Discussions, Q&As, Lectures, planned learner presentations, comprehension exercises, including the use of sources (various types).
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course learners will be able to:
1. Identify the main characters and events of the period
2. demonstrate an appreciation of the role these played in the movements of the time
3. Assess the importance of those movements
4. demonstrate an understanding of how key individuals and events interacted within movements
5. demonstrate an appreciation of the existence of counter-currents within these movements
6. Evaluate their significance
How will you know you are learning?
Formative and summative assessment through quizzes, group work, discussions, Q&As, interpretation of sources. Formal and informal feedback will be given, by tutor and peers.
Suggested Further Study and Progression Routes
Other WEA history and history related courses. Try the Open University or Birbeck Univeristy.
Brief tutor profile
Sean Worgan has a Ph.D. in history. He has taught for the WEA on various history topics, both medieval and modern. He has also taught for Havering and Newham Colleges on their further and higher education programmes. Sean has a PTLLS teaching qualification and likes to use original sources in his teaching. He specialises is modern Irish history, but also comparative history, particularly between Ireland, Britain and Europe. He had a paper published in Ex-Historia in March, on the Irish nationalist, Bulmer Hobson and Giuseppe Mazzini.

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